As of March 13, 2024, the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Destatis) lists a total of 427 institutions of higher education in the country. The table below lists all these institutions, together with links providing a wide variety of further information for each institution (see documentation below).

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Institutions of Higher Education in Germany
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Data source

The data is sourced from the following tables and lists:

  • The key tables for the student statistics (table series 372) provided by the Federal Statistical Agency (Destatis) on its data collection portal (Erhebungsportal). There are four key tables / csv files containing data on institutions of higher education in Germany: 1.) Hochschule, 2.) HochschulStandort, 3.) HochschuleErsteinschreibung, and 4.) HochschulFachbereich, each with slight differences in how and where institutions are counted (e.g. when a university has subsidiary campuses in other cities and German states, or in the classification of university hospitals),

  • the list of all institutions of higher education in Germany provided by the German Rector’s Conference (HRK). The Federal Statistical Agency data together with the HRK list are the “most authoritative German numbers” that exist.

  • the German and English Wikipedia article for each institution,

  • the Wikidata entry for each institution,

  • Logos are sourced as data URIs from Wikimedia Commons (preferred), or from the German or English Wikipedia entry. If available, SVGs are preferred to raster formats.

  • as described in vignette("ror"), we use the global Research Organization Registry (ROR) REST API to retrieve additional data and identifiers which are then matched to the existing data.

Identifiers

If available, the following identifiers for each institution are included:

City

If available, the following websites based on the institution’s city are linked:

Institutions of higher education

If available, the following websites providing further details on each instituion of higher eduation and their programs are linked:

Rankings

If available, the following rankings are linked:

Social Media

If available, the social media sites are linked:

  • Facebook,
  • Instagram,
  • Linkedin,
  • Mastodon,
  • TikTok,
  • X,
  • Youtube.

APIs

The following APIs were helpful in creating the data above: